Wardrobe Malfunction

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Mae: What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops, my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right? Doris: You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?

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Clothing Damage is when clothes get torn off during combat. This type of Fanservice is more generally when clothing rips or falls off in non-combat related situations.

The Theiss Titillation Theory says that outfits which "merely suggest the imminence of revelation" are teasingly sexy. If it looks like Victoria is one stiff breeze away from having all of her secrets revealed, it will certainly get your attention, if only out of morbid curiosity. But the allure is all in the teasing: it looks like we'll see something, but we never do. When the hinted-at revelation accidentally comes to pass (universally to the embarrassment of the victim and the enjoyment or amusement of everyone else), the tease is over. And you get this trope.

After her clothes got wet, Juliet had to put on Romio's clothes temporarily. Because of their Huge Guy, Tiny Girl dynamic, Romio's uniform was too big for Juliet and the pants slide back down revealing her legs because she didn't tie the belt to fit her and it results in confetti somehow bursting out of his head. Later, Juliet (in her "Julio" alter-ego) had to put on a Towan bathrobe in a hurry or else she'd be discovered by Romio's adopted sister Shuna. Juliet manages to fool Shuna, but when Romio turns his attention to Juliet, her robe was loose, slightly showing a little of her cleavage. As a Westian, Juliet doesn't know how to put it on properly.

During the Beach Episode when Hasuki was trying to teach Romio how to swim, she suddenly lets him go so that he can swim on his own. Romio starts flailing his arms about, trying to grab the nearest object, which happens to be Hasuki's bikini top. One strong yank, and Hasuki suddenly finds herself topless.

The central character of the highly obscure manga Buraburabanban (loosely cognate with "brass brass band band" via use of shortened loanwords) suffers one of these when, while conducting a performance of the school band, her motions become so vigorous that her shirt flies up, revealing to the audience that she forgot to wear a bra that day. Much later, in the final pages of the last chapter, a Call-Back strikes during an even bigger and more public concert: her baton catches on the strap of her dress, which completely falls off. And this time she isn't wearing panties either.

Touma accidentally disrobes Index at the beginning by touching her magically-generated clothes with his Imagine Breaker. Index had actually told him to do it, not believing him when told about his ability, but neither of them expected her clothes would disintegrate.

Happens again later in the second season to free a nun from magic-restricting clothing. Which then leads to a flashback (from another character) of Touma's hand being used to free other nuns while Touma was unconscious. He still gets in trouble.

Takao from D-Frag! once spontaneously fired the zipper on her track shirt at Kenji without as much as a gesture.

Gabriel DropOut: Raphiel has the largest chest of the girls and is also the most athletic, but she ends up being held back by them in the episode where they take the fitness test since the bra she was wearing that day was too tight and she was afraid to move too much and causing it the hooks to snap, which they eventually do during the running test, causing a lot of Gainaxing.

Golden Time: The bikini top Kouko shows off to Chinami in the latter's apartment during episode 14 falls off while she's complaining about Banri.

Invoked in Haunted Junction. When the very sexy Cute Ghost Girls Yamiko and Hanako get into a sport competition with lives at the stake that has sexiness as one of the requirements, Yamiko cheats by either intentionally dropping one of her uniform straps to bare her Gag Boobs (manga) or by replacing a swimsuit she has to wear for the swimming contest with dissolving Body Paint and performing Sexy Surfacing Shot for sex appeal points (anime).

In an episode of Hell Teacher Nube, a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony is being held, and a boy grabs a pair of scissors to cut the ribbon. Instead he accidentally cuts a teacher's skirt belt, causing it to fall off.

She gets a split swimsuit after warming up with Akemi's dynamic stretches routine, though it certainly didn't help that she'd gotten bigger since the last time she had worn it. The look on her face is priceless.

Hibiki's shorts are torn when she does the leg curl. Ayaka tries to tell her about it, but Hibiki's too pumped to listen.

Airi's bikini top falls off shortly after she kicks Raul when he claims She Is Not My Girlfriend in episode 8.

Both times we see Airi in her armor (which is a translucent catsuit with a few conveniently placed metal bars) the bar across her breasts gets broken.

In the first chapter of the manga Idol Pretender, an idol contest is interrupted by some Knife Nut, angry that his Gonk daughter hasn't made it past the pre-audition screening. When the creep takes Love Interest Yuika hostage, Gender Bender Chinami snaps and sends him flying with a mighty kick. Unfortunately, they were at the swimsuit competition phase, and Chinami's string-bikini bottom unties and flutters away as a result. He/She still wins a special prize nonetheless.

Kantai Collection: In Episode 6, Zuikaku notices that Shoukaku has spilled a drop of curry on her skirt. When she tries to rub it away, she winds up pulling off Shoukaku's skirt with incredible ease. An embarrassed Shoukaku then starts running around in panic, causing them to forget about the curry competition.

MariaHolic: Poor Ayari suffered this... twice. Both incidents even happened at the same feast. The first was as a child, when Shizu (then posing as Mariya) stumbled on her and accidentally revealed her panda-print panties. The second was as a teenager, after Mariya saved her from falling off her float by pulling down her School Swimsuit. Cue Ayari's SkywardBig "NO!" and Kanako staining the statue of the Virgin Mary with her epic nosebleed.

Prison School: Happens to Meiko, on multiple occasions, wears clothes that are way too tight for her curvaceous figure and end up giving out and tearing at the most inopportune moments.

Mari gives her a suffocatingly tight but more modest school uniform. Meiko thinks this is her actual punishment for the incident with Gakuto's action figure but later, when trying to goad Andre to go through the prison's fence, the uniform gives out and tears, which excites Andre enough to charge through the fence just as Mari planned.

The back of the pants of her prison uniform tear as she's trying to quickly complete her task of digging a large hole.

In a flashback chapter, Meiko's Sarashi audibly tears when she stands up too fast in class to answer a teacher's question.

A-ko often in Project A-ko. When she is particularly embarrassed, one of her bra straps will slip down her shoulder, often with some of the shirt accompanying it. She also often gets into situations that become an innocent Panty Shot, not that she takes it that way.

Rio's wedding dress gets ripped at the skirt by Mint after the latter trips and grabs it at the end of episode one, much to the delight of Tom Howard. Gets followed by a Scream Discretion Shot by Rio.

Almost happens to Rio during the virtual beach volleyball game in the giant roulette challenge in episode 2, when the top of her bikini gets undone, but somehow it gets fixed shortly after.

One instance borders on Clothing Damage, where Rio and her Childhood Friend Rina are pitted battle of skeet shoot where they shoot coins. A miss by the shooter (when it's her turn) results in her (already skimpy clothing) getting undone piece by piece (in fact the first one results in an Absolute Cleavage).

And at the end of that challenge which resulted in a draw, Rio, whose hotpants were undone in the match, ends up absentmindedly dropping them in full view of the spectators, much to her horror.

To date, the only time she never got hit with this trope is at episode 5.

After not being hit with this trope for how many episodes, she gets hit again; in episode 10. This time, though, she actually lampshades it.

The DVD versions of Queen's Blade allows any nipple flashes that would naturally happen from those outfits to take place. Most noticeable with Menace's version of the second season-ending, where she exposes her breasts with every step she takes.

Episode 7a of Sakura Trick promises one in the title, and delivers: Mitsuki's bikini top falls off.

Downplayed in a skit in episode 3 of Servant × Service. Lucy has all hooks on her bra broken, and the tension was about how her coworkers get to resolve the issue while tiptoeing around the issue itself. Eventually, Yutaka claimed Lucy had a fever because of her blush and should "go back to rest;" the others immediately got the hint. No fanservice was even intended in the skit as she wears conservatively.

Sgt. Frog: Whenever Natsumi gets hit with the age ray in the manga, she always gets a wardrobe malfunction. Whether reverting back her regular age, and suddenly finding herself topless in front of a crowd of nerdy guys, or losing her ski suit to an explosion, it's pretty much a given.

Happens all the time to Super Sonico in the many manga adaptations; about two of every three times she's wearing a bikini, her top will snap at some point. To make things worse for the poor girl, it usually happens at the worst possible moment, such as in the middle of a photo shoot, when she's in a stage giving a concert for millions, or when she's at the beach with everyone staring at her as she rides her savior dolphin back to the coast. Official artworks tend to chronicle her many wardrobe malfunctions as well; one of them even shows her bikini top and bottom snapping at the same time. The ultimate example, though, was in an episode of the anime, in which her whole costume melted in the middle of a concert. Cue her horrified scream. The last case was also an example of the trope being invoked since the costume was specifically designed to melt and leave its wearer in the buff.

Ryoko invokes this towards Ayeka in the fourth episode of Tenchi Muyo!. The princess had just realized Tenchi was now in the girls' bath (again, thanks to Ryoko), and is caught in something of a daze by being in the baths with him. Realizing how prim, proper and utterly boring she's being, Ryoko livens things up by undoing the tie on Ayeka's towel, exposing her in front of Tenchi.

Happens with Lynn in the ALF comic, when Alf, in order to stop Willie and Kate from going down the girl's throat about her new bikini being too revealing, sews a new, stylish and more modest swimsuit for her out of the seat-covers from his spaceship. Crisis averted — until Lynn and her classmates go to the seaside and it turns out that the Melmacian fabric can take fresh water without any problems, but dissolves completely in saltwater.

All-New Wolverine: Experienced by Laura (X-23) in issue #22. After spending two weeks unconscious in a hospital bed, Laura gets up and demands to be taken to S.H.I.E.L.D. at once upon learning how long she was out, not realizing she has been undressed and put into a hospital gown Gabby, who is standing behind her, suggests she might want to get dressed first because the gown has a very big opening in the back.

A story in Veronica volume 201 had the girls discover a collection of old-style bathing suits and try them out in the water. The boys didn't really appreciate the cover-everything styles... until it became clear that the old fabric couldn't stand up to water anymore and disintegrated, leaving Betty, Veronica and the rest nakedin the ocean. Heck, this even happened to Mrs. Lodge who tried out one of the suits at a pool party.

In another Archie comic, Cheryl stole a dress that Veronica designed and wore it to a party just to laugh in her face - only to find out at that point what a bad seamstress Veronica was. The whole dress ripped apart in front of everyone. (Of course, as humiliating as that was for Cheryl, the story didn't quite end on a high note for Ronnie either...)

In Doom Patrol 2009 #7, the Metal Men are trying to stop Giganta (Doris Zeus) when one of their attacks weakened her suit, resulting in a wardrobe malfunction when she stretches her arms, leaving the giantess topless in the middle of the street. She agrees to surrender in exchange for Platinum and Copper forming a giant bikini for her to wear.

Empowered: A super-powered variant occurs with Elissa. While attempting to show Ninjette and Thugboy her suit's invisibility powers by making her mask invisible, she accidentally ends up making the entire thing disappear... while wearing absolutely nothing underneath. Naturally, she also happens to have both hands stretched overhead as this happens (to hold up a car), leaving her body completely exposed.

Harley Quinn 2014: In issue #11, Harley finds an amnesiac Power Girl and takes her to her home, where she promptly falls unconscious, and Harley gets an idea to convince Kara that she's her Sidekick. To help sell the illusion, Harley had tailor-made matching costumes for her and Kara, based on Power Girl's Iconic Outfit (with a Harley Quinn twist). She then undresses the Kara and puts her on the new costume. When Kara awakens, due to her muscular and tall physique the costumes immediately burst under the strain the moment she gets up, leaving her standing there nude save for Scenery Censor provided by Harley's head.

In the second Lady Rawhide mini-series, Lady Rawhide's breast does actually pop out of her costume for a panel. There had been jokes ever since the character debuted about how she managed to stay in her Stripperific outfit.

Happens to Power Girl in issue #9 of her series. Right after she steps out of the shower, someone slides an envelope under the door containing pictures compromising her Secret Identity. Kara instantly bolts out clad in a Modesty Towel to chase after the perpetrator, who's just a kid. Dashing down the stairs, she manages to collar him, at which point her towel falls off, giving the kid and a neighbor a full-frontal (She's covered by Scenery Censor to the viewer). She hastily covers herself with bread and a pie pan borrowed from her neighbor and flees to her room to get dressed.

Squadron Supreme: In issue #3, Zarda (Power Princess) is filming a promo spot and suffers one at the prankish hands of Doctor Spectrum, who secretly cuts the straps of her outfit, making it slip, leaving her topless in front of a camera and the crew. The viewer only sees her bare back and Sideboob but everyone around her get a full-frontal eyeful. She figures out it was Spectrum when she catches him laughing and is pissed, not due to modesty since she's a Shameless Fanservice Girl, but because he did it with the intent to humiliate her.

Uncanny X-Men (2013): In issue #14, after showering, Benjamin (Morph) goes back to his room clad in a Modesty Towel only to find his teacher Emma Frost casually waiting for him, which startles him enough to drop his towel. Nonplussed, Emma proceeds to talk to him about his powers and how they work while the poor boy backs up against the wall trying to cover himself back up.

Fan Works

Discussed in Amazing Fantasy. Izuku, being a Genre Savvy Hero Fan Boy, is aware that many early superheroes wore Underwear of Power in case the spandex they were wearing tore. After buying a cheap Spider-Man costume to wear while training with Peter, he finds that it clings a bit too tightly to his new muscles and slips on a pair of exercise shorts in case he has an "accident".

Dungeon Keeper Ami has many, many instances of these. Mostly because of Ami'ssailor senshi transformations affecting other people, and conjured clothes disappearing every now and then.

Green Tea Rescue: During a training accident, Ochakos gi suffers a wardrobe malfunction, letting Izuku get just the smallest glimpse of her sports bra. He was racked with guilt for several nights.

Animalympics: Figure skater Dorrie Turnell combines this with feathers as clothes. She loses them in a rapid pirouette and ends up in underwear. The spotlight goes off and on again, and she wears a bathrobe.

The Rugrats Movie: When the babies are lost in the forest, Phil and Lil blame the whole mess on Dil, who Tommy defends. Then, Dil snaps off one of his diaper straps, causing it to fall in front of his friends.

Winnie the Pooh (2011): Pooh's tummy bursting open with stuffing when he reaches for a pot of honey on Owl's mantle. The stuffing even tumbles out.

The even more obscure Live-Action Adaptation of the obscure manga Buraburabanban features a variation upon the manga example mentioned above. The main heroine loses her dress during the band's first performance (with no help from the baton this time), and gets through the climactic major performance without incident... only to have her skirt pop open and fall off during a rehearsal later.

Carry On...: Nearly every film featured at least one scene where a male character either lost or split his trousers or a female character lost her skirt or top.

Carry On Abroad has Sadie losing her bra accidentally after talking to Vic.

Carry On Cruising: Binn and Marjoribanks split their tight trousers when they bend over in front of the Captain. They hobble out of the room in embarrassment with a shared matador cloth wrapped around their waists.

Carry On Spying: This happens to Charlie when he tries to stop the enemy on the train journey back to the airport. It works though  it does stall them for a long enough time to get Desmond two carriages down.

Carry On Teacher: Miss Allcock's gym shorts split when she's teaching her PE class, as the students have replaced her usual pair with one that is several sizes too small.

In the 1983 film Class a college boy has a disastrous date with a girl whom he meets in an official meeting the next day. In front of various officials she shoves him over backwards, he grabs on to the nearest handhold which is her shirt.

Dear Diary: Annie's taking golf lessons while wearing a buttoned-up work blouse. She takes a mighty swing at the golf ball and gets off a very nice drive, and also causes her shirt to rip open, exposing her bra for an audience of appreciative men.

In Devil Fish, we're treated to an upwards shot as a male character descends a ladder, giving us a look right up the leg of his shorts. The MST crew censored it with their logo, but the "Greatest Hits" montage that the staff used to screw with Mike, Bill, and Kevin while filming Danger: Diabolik had it uncut.

Home Alone 3: The female robber, Alice Ribbons bends over to pick up a hat ripping open her pants to expose her red underwear, let it be noted she's on a mission to steal bomb codes when this happens.

Jumpin' Jack FlashAverted when Terry's dress gets caught in a shredder. She desperately holds on to the dress' cups to prevent it. Regardless, her dress does get much shorter as a result.

The Kissing Booth, a portion of the plot is kicked off by protagonist, Elle ripping her school pants on the first day of school to reveal her white undies and causing her to wear a tiny skirt to school.

In King Kong (1933), Ann's dress slides down when she and Jack fall into the water after escaping Kong.

Played Straight and Downplayed in King Kong (2005), Straight when Ann is wearing her dressing gown, as right after Kong kidnaps her and when Ann entertains Kong the following morning, occasionally her gown would slide down showing a bit more skin. Downplayed after she loses the dressing gown and only wears her silk slip, as her straps sometimes fall off, but it doesn't expose any more skin as it already does.

In the opening scene of Lady Ninja Kaede, Kaede's boob falls free of her tunic as she springs up the wall.

The page quote from A League of Their Own occurred when the players were discussing how to drum up more interest in the all-female baseball league.

Let It Ride: In a Deleted Scene, Vicki's breasts pop out of her dress when she tackles Trotter in the Jockey Club, which is why in the film all of the elderly women gasp in shock at her.

Happens repeatedly to Baya, the lead female character of The Names Of Love, but she's so absent-minded that she barely even notices when her breasts spill out of her clothes in public. On one occasion, she suffers an extreme case of Wardrobe Malfunction, by forgetting altogether to put any clothes on when going out of her flat.

During the final musical number for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, near the end Columbia's breasts slip out of her top. Little Nell did this on purpose and you can play a drinking game out of how many times she gets her nips on screen.

Star Wars: In Return of the Jedi it happens to Oola, the green Twi'lek dancer. And to Princess Leia's golden bikini during the filming. Both were unintentional bloopers that were edited out but can still be seen with the Still/Step feature on a CAV Laserdisc version of the film.

The Dresden Files In Storm Front, Dresden's just stepped out of the shower when the date he'd forgotten about (because he took a few blows to the head) shows up. He covers himself with a towel, then a demon shows up and the towel falls off while he's fighting it. This is made more complicated when he realizes said date accidentally drank a Love Potion instead of an escape potion.

Young Wizards: In Wizards at War, Dairine finds she has nothing in her closet suitable for meeting alien royalty and resorts to Gorgeous Garment Generation. Unfortunately, she doesn't consider that reconfiguring her clothes on a molecular level will leave her momentarily nude, and she isn't alone at the time.

Baywatch: In "A Little Help," CJ (Pamela Anderson) is in training for a dancing competition. Early in the episode, she practices her routine with Mitch, which involves dipping her at the end. She tells him to check if anything has fallen out, and he tells her, accurately, "Everything's in place." At the end, her partner hasn't shown up for the competition, so Mitch volunteers himself. They do the routine, and, while not shown on camera for obvious reasons, it's apparent that CJ has fallen out of her dress. Caroline, Stephanie and Hobie are there, and they cover-up Hobie's eyes.

A staple of The Benny Hill Show. However contrived, you can bet that every sort of freak accidents possible will happen to the clothes of any sexy woman in most sketches (usually with a very exaggerated ripping sound) and leave her in her underwear. Though the males of the cast aren't entirely spared either, there it's purely for humor and never fanservice.

In an episode of The Brittas Empire, the flaky Helen Brittas (Pippa Heywood) has to run across the leisure center reception area in a dressing gown. It very briefly flaps open as she runs and reveals that she is completely naked underneath. This was not intended and as the wardrobe malfunction only lasts for less than a second and was recorded before freeze-frame technology became standard on video players, it was allowed to stand on the released version. It does appear to have been edited out of later released versions, however.

The CSI: Miami episode "Shock" opens with a pair of very famous young ladies competing for camera time in front of a group of Paparazzi. One of them intentionally pulls her top down and later refers to it as a wardrobe malfunction.

A regular event at the Eurovision Song Contest. Often leads to speculation as to whether they are done deliberately to try and win more points.

A splendid example and arguably a Trope Maker is Lill Lindfors, the host in 1985. She lost her skirt when it snagged on some scenery. This was quickly revealed as intentional when she unfastened part of her top to make a dress.

In "The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding", Rachel accidentally gets her dress tucked into her underwear during the wedding and everybody sees her butt when she ends up walking down the aisle this way, adding even more embarrassment to her day.

Years later, in "The One with Rachel's New Dress", thanks to various misunderstandings Rachel ends up wearing her skimpy nightie to dinner with Joshua and his parents. Talking about it with Monica and Phoebe afterwards, she reports that when the waiter spilled water down her back, she jumped up and her boob popped out.

In an episode of "Full House", Joey rips his pants while doing ballet in his 90s' jeans, prompting DJ to mock him.

in a nice bit of karma, 20 years later in the sequel series "Fuller House", DJ rips her own pants during a game of twister in broad daylight.

In episode 2 of the ABC series GCB, headcheerleader Alexandra gets a boob job and ignores her mother's advice that "you can't wear last year's uniform with this year's breasts". She then plays a prank on some less popular girls just before a pep rally, and justice inevitably strikes when her top pops open◊ (warning: contains excessive pixellation) in front of the whole school.

General Hospital: During the years of the annual Port Charles Nurses' Ball (1994-2001, 2013-), a Running Gag was that Lucy Coe would somehow always wind up on stage in her underwear at the end of the show ... often because of a rival's plotting.

During Jessica Simpson's performance on the September 10, 2008 Good Morning America,, walking with her back to the camera, the wind blew up the back of her skirt briefly revealing her butt on national TV.

During NBC's 2016 production of Hairspray, a strap on Kristin Chenoweth (Velma)'s dress apparently came off during the Curtain Call. She managed to cover herself up, but the telecast still didn't show her taking her bow: instead, the camera focused on Ariana Grande (Penny). For the West Coast feed, NBC managed to put the focus back on Chenoweth.

Modern Family: In "Snip", a pregnant Gloria has insisted on her usual clothes despite an increasing baby bump and body fat. Near the end of the episode, after Manny has told her she can't deny that she looks pregnant, her sweater suddenly pops open and her tight pants rip. This leads her to finally start wearing maternity clothes.

Judy Finnegan's dress fell open at the National TV Awards during her acceptance speech. On-screen presenting partner/off-screen husband Richard Madeley, standing next to her on stage, did not notice and appeared to believe that the crowd was clamoring for his Ali G impression. Fellow TV presenter John Leslie ran out from the audience and covered her up. Judy took the incident in reasonably good graces, and joked later that "thank goodness [she] was wearing an expensive bra."

In the final season of The Practice, Alan hacked Jimmy's computer so that it would show a graphic of Jimmy with his pants falling down and say "Wardrobe Malfunction!" over and over.

The September 14, 1977 episode started with contestant Yolanda Bowersley coming on down when her tube top slipped and exposed her breasts. Bob Barker was offstage waiting for his cue and was surprised to find the audience more excited than usual.

Bob: Now, I... I know you truly love me, but you don't really love me this much, do you? Johnny Olsen: Bob, they've given their ALL for you... Bob: Yes...

As Bob would put it years later:

Bob: She came on down and they came on out.

On that same episode, before the second-to-last One-Bid, the contestant called down almost had a similar incident. Bob said of her that she was "the best thing to happen to this show since Yolanda!"

Something similar happened on the Australian version in the mid-2000s. Contestant Cassandra Dillon flashed her chest while coming on down, eliciting laughter from the audience to the confusion of emcee Larry Emdur. Announcer Shawn Cosgrove downed his entire bottle of water before finally saying "Sorry!"

Marion's dress flies up as she jumps from the loft in "The King's Fool."

Will Scarlet in a short, wet robe in "The Cross of St. Ciricus", climbing up a sheer rock face with no underwear. It perhaps wouldn't have been so bad if the camera hadn't been positioned low, pointing directly up. In the same episode, Guy of Gisburne wears wet beige clothing with black underwear beneath.

Sigourney: Do you think men are gonna masturbate to this? Do you think women will?

Smash: Ivy suffered a Wardrobe Malfunction during a play while playing the part of Marilyn Monroe and her entire outfit pooled at her feet. The audience thought it was part of the show as a Dress Hits Floor scene and it ended up being such a hit that they made it part of the play.

Telenovela (2016): Happens in the first episode to Anna Sofia (Eva Longoria) who is wearing a last-minute made dress for the Telenovela that is falling apart while she tries to have a conversation with her boss. At one point with only her hands keeping it from falling, preventing her from opening a door.

In the second episode of The Two Ronnies serial "Hampton Wick", Madeline Smith's low-cut dress slips a bit too low and exposes more than it ought. It seems no-one noticed it before the show was broadcast.

During the filming of an episode, the zipper in Vanna White's dress split and the whole thing peeled off her like a banana. She grabbed it just in time and ran off stage. She returned in a new dress to a standing ovation.

Pat Sajak, on a 2013 episode, had a button pop off his coat during the Final Spin. Although the wardrobe department was able to get him a new button, he wore stage manager John Lauderdale's jacket for the rest of the show as a joke.

White Rabbit Project: Used as a title of one of the escape shenanigans in the "Jailbreak" episode. A convict disguises himself as his visiting wife, trading places with her, to escape. The title comes into play in that the convict was poorly disguised, couldn't act like a woman convincingly, and got recaptured within 15 minutes.

While performing in Central Park in August 2011, Nicki Minaj's dancing was a little too energetic for her costume to handle. As it happened, the show was being aired live on Good Morning America, and despite a five-second broadcast delay, the censors failed to notice until it was too late. ABC issued an apology for the oversight.

The "daring" Dominique Auxilly dress that Adrienne Bailon wore to a March 2012 concert is a perfect example of how the Theiss Titillation Theory can backfire spectacularly to cause one of these. She was posing for photographers on the red carpet when a gust of wind suddenly revealed that she wasn't wearing anything underneath.

Ryu Hwayoung of the South Korean girl groupT-ara suffered a malfunction during a live performance of the single "Lovey Dovey" on a music show when the non-seethrough portion of her costume slipped down just as the camera zoomed in for her solo.

Idina Menzel's breasts became nearly exposed during a June 2014 concert at Radio City Music Hall.

Italian actress Veronica Maya did a performance of Madonna's "Material Girl" on the 7 November 2014 episode of the Tale e Quale Show, and nearly as soon as she took the stage her low-cut strapless pink dress rapidly began to slip even lower. She noticed what was happening and tried to tug it back into place, but as she kept dancing and flung her arms wide, it came right back down and completely exposed her breasts. She tried to tuck herself back in and continue the performance, but couldn't keep herself covered for more than a few seconds at a time, and finally, the conductor rushed on stage to interrupt the show. Veronica went backstage, had straps added to her outfit and returned in time to finish the show.

The video for Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" has a blink-and-you-miss-it moment (during the first chorus, when she sings "I'm keeping my baby") when she throws down her hands and sticks her chest out at the end of the dance sequence. The action causes her one of her breasts to become partly exposed just before the shot cuts away. Evidently, it was such a quick moment that no one ever bothered to censor it.

The January 1940 cover of The New Yorker is a Peter Arno cartoon with a dancing couple consisting of a worried-looking man noticing that the back of the woman's dress is coming undone.

Pro Wrestling

Defied, but in between traveling between Deep South Wrestling and PGWA in 2007, Melissa Coates experimented with ring gear that ended up having her fighting off wardrobe malfunctions as much as pin and submission attempts.

Gail Kim cites her most embarrassing moment in TNA as when she did her entrance pose while wearing a skirt - and the skirt shot too far up, giving everyone a Panty Shot.

Awesome Kong suffered this during an over-the-top Battle Royale to determine TNA's first "knockout" champion, which was included on the Bonus Disc for their Video Game. As if the name wasn't enough of a clue, she is a giant black woman whose role is the Monster Heel and is as far removed from the Ms. Fanservice role as a woman in wrestling could be.

The secondSweet Georgia Brown became infamous for these within a year of working for USWA in 1989, though most cases were "intentional" along the lines of Clothing Damage and Jacqueline also suffered a definitely accidental one during her match with Disco Inferno at WCW Halloween Havok. Perhaps most infamously was her match at WWC's 22nd Aniversario against La Tigresa, as it was already an evening gown match where the goal was to remove it from the opponent and Jacqueline still managed to have a wardrobe malfunction without actually losing the gown or match.

At the 10-diva tag match at Survivor Series 2007, Michelle McCool has an unfortunate Nip Slip and actually wrestles for a whole minute with her nipple exposed. The DVD doesn't actually edit it out.

Total Divas made a storyline out of an incident where Layla El pulled Rosa Mendes tights and exposed her ass as she was climbing into the ring. The storyline had Rosa noticing that her Instagram followers increased after the incident, and wondering if she'd be able to stage a second to get even more followers.

The October 6, 1997 episode of WCW Monday Nitro opened with a graphic memorializing the wrestler Brian Pillman, who had died the day before. The show then went into the arena, the Target Center in Minneapolis, MN, to start the show off with a Nitro Girls dance number. During the routine, Chae's left breast briefly bounced out of her top. This event became known as the "Nitro Nipple."

In 1987, during the match that turned Randy Savage into a face (after several years of being a heel), the strap of Miss Elizabeth's dress broke when the Honky Tonk Man shoved her to the mat. She spent the remainder of the segment — including the part where she, Savage, Hulk Hogan raised each other's hands and took in loud cheers — holding up her the right part of her dress so it wouldn't expose too much.

Played With during Miss Kitty's infamous flashing at the Armageddon 1999 PPV. Stacy Carter flashing the crowd was intentional - but it going out live wasn't. The plan was for Sgt. Slaughter to immediately run in and cover her with a Modesty Towel when she removed her bra, and the camera behind her was supposed to be live, creating a Toplessness from the Back shot where only a few people in the crowd would see anything. Sgt Slaughter was late coming in with his cue, and the wrong camera went out live - resulting in her unknowingly flashing her breasts live on TV, making it the first instance of nudity on Wrestling/WWE's national programming.

While a "Diva" losing her clothes is often planned, at Judgment Day 2004 it certainly wasn't as Dawn Marie's tights literally ripped right open, though she was wearing a thong.

During Mickie James and Melina's Falls Count Anywhere 2007 match, it spills into the locker room and Candice Michelle orders them out. Melina pulls her Candice's Modesty Towel off and the camera crew cuts away too late. Although the live feed was darkened, the people in the arena still accidentally saw everything.

AJ Styles split a huge hole in the back of his pants during TLC match in TLC 2016.

During an in-ring promo between Eve Torres and Beth Phoenix, Eve shoved Beth down and she ended up flashing her panties to the back row of the audience while trying her hardest not to flash her top area to the front row.

In a Triple Threat match between CM Punk, Kane and Daniel Bryan, Bryan was up on the turnbuckle set up for a Superplex and Kane and Punk were pulling each other down... until Kane grabs Punk's trunks and pulls them down, exposing his ass to half the arena in the process.

Stephanie McMahon herself suffered one during an episode of Raw in the late '90s as Triple H readied her for a Pedigree. She put it away and it popped out again as Chris Jericho saved her. Similar happens during her divorce angle with Triple H in 2002. After getting his dog run over, Triple H goes after Stephanie & when she tries crawling away, Hunter pulled her pants, exposing her from the back. Though it has been censored since.

In a 2007 RAW, When Melina was "dating" Hornswoggle, he came upon Melina while she was showering, causing her to run away screaming, covered by a Modesty Towel but he chased after her and managed to pull it away, leaving her to have a Naked Freak-Out offscreen. Next week she was pinned by Mickie James after Horswoggle's distracted Melina before she could hit the sunset split. She chased him under the ring where she was heard screaming before Hornswoggle emerged with her top, then went back under to get her pants. Melina just stuck her head out, demanding her clothes back while he ran waving them around.

On the 20th Anniversary of Monday Night Raw in 2013, John Cena is fighting Dolph Ziggler in a Steel Cage match. Cena tries to stop Ziggler from going over the top, but accidentally pulls down Ziggler's trunks, exposing his ass to everyone watching at home.

In a 2013 Raw segment promoting the new Reality ShowTotal Divas, Brie Bella's breast is briefly exposed. Due to her immediate public apology mandated by her superiors, it's believed that it possibly would have gone unnoticed had they not said anything.

Batista's jeans suffered a rather large tear after he speared Randy Orton during a 2014 Monday Night RAW argument with Orton and Stephanie McMahon. The torn jeans later became autographed by Batista and put up for auction.

The Feb. 19, 2018 edition of Monday Night Raw, Asuka's nipple was exposed after Nia Jax dropped her leg so hard, it caused Asuka's top to loosen, it would've been pretty hard to notice if it were not for the fact her nipple was hard enough to cut diamond.

On Aug. 9, 2016 SmackDown, the straps of Eva Marie's top broke, but she was able to stop it from falling off with her arms in time. The referee stopped the match and covered her with a towel, to the boos of the crowd. This was staged as Eva's character at the time was a cowardly heel who would come up with lame excuses to avoid having to fight.

On the Aug. 8, 2017 edition of SmackDown, Lana accidentally pulled Charlotte Flair's tights and exposed her ass to the crowd as she tried to counter Charlotte's move. Cue fans chanting "Thank you, Lana!" and Charlotte giving a smile.

Triple H himself suffered it after the DX vs. Legacy Summerslam 2009. With the fight won, DX celebrates, but Triple H's briefs became disheveled and a clear shot of his twins can be seen. Unlike Stephanie's case, it seems WWE hadn't noticed, as it remains uncensored.

The ladder match at WrestleMania X had Shawn Michaels getting the top of his tights pulled down, flashing the crowd a full moon. He then delivered an elbow drop off the ladder with his cheeks exposed.

Puppet Shows

The incident with Sophie Marceau's dress at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival was repeatedly mocked on Les Guignols de l'info, each time implying it to be less and less accidental.

The Muppets: Parodied on "A Tail of Two Piggies" when Miss Piggy's on the Red Carpet wearing a dress with a very low plunging backline and her curly tail slips out. Seems that in the Muppet universe, pigs' tails are taboo. Lamenting that she has to hide her piggy-ness, she's inspired to create #UnveilTheTail in order to empower other pigs to proudly show their tails.

Sports

Happens every occasionally in figure skating:

Happened to the East German figure skater Katarina Witt at an exhibition in Paris in 1988, when her costume slipped during a long spin. Apparently, she hadn't had a chance to test the new costume before the performance. note In her memoir, Only With Passion, she recounts the incident:

"It helps to be thin in figure skating. You know that. You can rotate faster in the air, you're lighter, you can jump higher, and in a subjectively judged sport like ours, let's face it, appearance matters. Looks matter. That will help a beautiful girl like you, Jasmine. It wasn't like I had big, heavy... well, you know. But there they were, and they needed to be supported, and we couldn't find the right materials to work in those days. Plus, there are certain tricks to constructing a costume that we hadn't yet learned. The worst was when I came out of my costume during an exhibition number in Paris in 1987." "You're kidding." "I'd wanted to wear a costume that looked like a bustier, but it took months to be made, and when it finally arrived I didn't have time to try it out in practice. The first time I skated with it was during the Paris exhibition. Big mistake. The top of the costume was made of elastic and in the middle of a spin I could feel it sliding down, down, down." "The costume?" "Yes. The bustier with the very stretchy straps. It was stretching. Suddenly I felt a draft. When I finished the spin I had to pull the top back up, and the rest of the program I skated with my arms pressed up against my sides. I was afraid to move my arms. I knew one of my boobs had popped out of my costume, but I didn't think anyone had a picture of it." "Oh, no." "Yes. Whoever took the picture didn't do anything with it for three months, until February, just before the Calgary Olympics. Then they published it. It's still out there on the Internet, and it's just terrible. The Canadian coach made a big deal out of it, saying I was trying to win the judges by wearing sexy costumes, which was pretty stupid because I was so embarrassed by the incident."

At the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships, during the compulsory dances, where each ice dance couple does the exact same routine, Russian ice dancer Ekaterina Rubleva's dress strap snapped, causing her breast to be exposed on international TV. She and partner Ivan Shefer were then obliged to finish the dance that way to avoid losing points, which they did.

Perhaps the most costly instance was at the 2018 Olympics, when Gabriella Papadakis's neck strap snapped at the beginning of her and Guillaume Cizeron's short dance, causing her top to slowly slip down during the performance. It threw them off enough it may well have cost them the gold medal; they lost by less than a point.

Italian Olympic swimmer Flavia Zoccari was disqualified from an event at the 2009 Mediterranean Games when her full-body swimsuit split open just before the race and exposed her rear.

Something similar apparently happened to Ricky Berens at the 2009 World Swimming Championships, although he was not disqualified.

Bobsledder Gillian Cooke had the back of her suit split open at the 2010 championship race... with a live camera directly behind her... while wearing a G-string. She completed the race anyway, and the video was briefly very popular on YouTube.

Women were not allowed to watch the ancient Greek Olympics, and tradition holds that this ban was defied only once when Pherenice of Rhodes disguised herself as a man in order to watch her son compete. When her son won, she rushed to congratulate him and her disguise slipped off. The authorities decided not to punish her out of respect for her family's Olympic achievements.

During the 2015 NBA Finals, LeBron James was shown adjusting his jersey into his shorts during a timeout. The camera briefly captured a full-frontal showing of "The King's Prince."

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, speed skater Olga Graf, after setting a personal best time in the 3000 meters, unzipped her suit to the navel to help with cooling off. But she apparently forgot she wasn't wearing a bra, and she zipped back up as soon as she realized.

Theatre

Mean Girls Happens to Regina during that talent show number, due to the fact that (thanks to the Kalteen bars) her skirt no longer fits and the makeshift holders she created for it failed mid-performance. This incident goes viral on Instagram, and causes Regina to begin falling out of favor with the student body.

In the last scene of The Women, a recent victim of this makes a bit-part appearance, desperately seeking a safety pin to mend the broken shoulder strap of her dress.

Video Games

Aquapazza: Sasara magically dismisses her halberd and shield as part of some of her Victory Poses. Only she sometimes also dismisses her armor, leaving her in a strapless leotard that she finds quite embarrassing.

Elf Bowling: In the second game, on occasion, an elf being lifted up from the party going on belowdecks will have his swimsuit catch on a piece of the mechanism and snap, leaving a {{pixellat|ion}ed blur in its place. It doesn't last long, though, as the swimsuit reappears for the player to use in flinging the elf down the deck.

Grea's outfit has become a bit memetic with fans for a problem it has... with her dragon tail. Her school has a fairly standard, if somewhat fancy, Joshikousei outfit for the girls. Except that Grea's skirt hasn't, uh, been modified for her tail. As a result, her SR portrait in particular looks rather like it's mooning everyone all the time. (This was less of a problem in Rage of Bahamut because her tail wasn't as thick, but in Granblue it's gigantic.)

Airi's charge attack ends with her bust Popping Buttons off of her top, causing it to fire off like a bullet.

Let's just say, Forte's "Draph Assets" cracked her armor's breastplate. Her initial design from Rage of Bahamut has Forte's armor fit comfortably with her form, but due to her transition to the Draph race, it was inevitable.

Gravity Rush: At the end of the ninth episode, Kat is clad in a Modesty Towel back in the Pipe House white she washing the only outfit she has, when Syd visits her. After they interact, she (jokingly) punches him in the arm, which causes her towel to accidentally fall off, right in front of Syd. Cue Naked Freak-Out.

Street Fighter V: It's for a small fraction of a second, and it automatically corrects itself, but Birdie's pants fall down exposing his ass during his Bull Head attack.

Taisen Hot Gimmick Forever, a mahjong game where defeating an opponent gives the player the option to punish them which, male or female, usually involves the character having to strip. Akiko Daimon is a Amazonian Beauty wearing just a sports bra and thong, and is also a member of her school's bodybuilding club. For her punishment, the player can have her do bench presses topless, or flex her biceps, which causes her sports bra to tear off.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Hiyoko's been wearing the same traditional Japanese dancing clothes for a long time, because the clothing is apparently so complicated she can't tie her obi by herself without suffering a wardrobe malfunction (which means if she were to take the clothing off she wouldn't be able to put it back on), which means she hasn't bathed in a while. This ends up being important in Chapters 2's trial as it proves she couldn't have showered Mahiru's blood off her if she cannot re-dress herself afterward, as Mahiru was the one who was helping her dress.

This ends up happening to both Kirumi and Maki at the end of their respective Argument Armament. Both times they're using Hand-or-Object Underwear to cover themselves.

Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!: When Stacy is having a splash fight with Yamato, her top comes off and vanishes never to be seen again. Yamato doesn't even pretend he didn't see anything, much to her irritation.

Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "stand up" features an old home movie of Strong Bad as a kid, doing a comedy routine for the school talent show. His act is bad enough, but then his pants fall down onstage and he trips running away in embarrassment.

The title character of Bridgette's Belly. Basically any time her belly grows larger (whether from pregnancy, overeating, or both) and she isn't wearing stretchy pants. Her formal dress pretty much explodedwhile pregnant with twins.

In C Karrus Juline experiences this frequently but doesn't seem to care.

In an episode of 6teen, Nikki wears a long, purple dress in order to impress a boy (not Jonesy), and stands too close to the going-down escalator. Guess what happens?

Archer: Mallory hires a black Jewish man to fulfill minority hiring requirements, and Archer confronts him in the locker room, with both wearing Modesty Towels. When they end up nearly fighting, both towels fall off.

Doctor Blight in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, when she squeezes into a pair of her sister's shorts in an attempt to disguise herself as her sister. As Blight sits down, she splits the shorts.

Disney animated shorts saw this happen to Donald Duck on several occasions:

Bellboy Donald (1942): Donald loses his entire bellboy uniform as a troublesome child sticks part of it between an elevator door... and the elevator moves, completing the deed. Hand covers crotch and deep blush immediately follows.

Tea for Two Hundred (1948): Donald digs for food stolen by ants inside their hole. Rather pull the food out, they pull his entire outfit in, leaving him above ground completely naked. Moment of embarrassment follows.

Hook, Lion, and Sinker (1950): As Donald is cooking in his kitchen, two lions steal fish stacked on the windowsill, one at a time, bucket-brigade style. Having run out of fish but assuming there is more to steal, the next items blindly grabbed —in order and sequentially — are his chef's hat, matching bib, his entire outfit, Donald himself, and the gun he was holding before being tossed out the window. Cartoon logic in this backward order; after the brigade is out of items, Donald, once again fully clothed and armed, greets them on the far end.

Family Guy: "PTV" has David Hyde Pierce's scrotum falling out during the Emmys, in a thinly disguised parody of the Trope Namer. The same episode directly parodied it during a rapid-fire montage at the end of the "Freakin' FCC" song with a clip of Peter flashing his nipple.

The Loud House: In an episode where Lincoln films his sisters doing embarrassing things around the house one of the things he captures is punk rocker, Luna jumping up and performing the splits only to split her pants.

In Pet Pals, Madame's dress gets ripped off after Top Hat accidentally closes the car door on it. She is then subjected to humiliation by being flashed by photographers. This may or may not be an enforced example since part of the scene appears in the trailer and it happens 6 minutes into the movie itself.

Pound Puppies (1980s) had one in the episode "A Tail of a Pup" where the Safety pin on Whopper's diaper came undone and it fell off.

Happens to Homer Simpson's salamander costume at the end of the episode where he tries to run for Mayor of Springfield.

Homer also fell victim to this trope in 1992 during a Halloween party:

Homer: Hail Caesar, in all his glory! [the hem of his toga snags on a loose nail as he's coming down the basement stairs]Cloth of toga: RRRIIIIIPPP!

In the South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons", Cartman walks onto a stage stark naked, believing in his (imaginary) power to turn invisible. When put on the spot about this "scandalous" display, he replies, "I told you, it was a wardrobe malfunction!"

SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob rips his pants accidentally while trying to lift weights; he then does this intentionally because it makes people laugh.

The Trope Namer was the famous incident when Justin Timberlake "inadvertently"note they later confessed to planning the whole thing exposed Janet Jackson's breast at the 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show. It revealed a touch of Double Standard — Jackson was accused of corrupting youth with a half-second of her bare breast, but very few (if any) people complained that Timberlake managed to cause it by, effectively, pantomiming a form of sexual assault. note Timed to the line "Gonna have you naked by the end of this song" in Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body", no less. Additionally, Janet gets more blame than Justin due to the rumor that, although it was planned, all that would have been seen was her bra... had she agreed to wear it. Finally, the offending moment transpired so quickly in Real Time that many people didn't notice it until the news media replayed it over and over. Purely to show their disapproval, of course.

Interestingly, it was this event and the difficulty of finding video clips of it (as well as clips of the 2004 South Asian tsunami) that inspired the founders of YouTube to create that site in 2005, according to a 2006 interview with co-founder Jawed Karim, despite YouTube later going on to restrict such content for the purpose of increasing ad revenue.

Before a Stanley Cup Playoff game in 1997, Lucy Lawless performed the national anthem wearing a strapless red top. When she lifted her arm in celebration at the end of the song, she inadvertently popped out, much to her embarrassment.

In 2001, the snap on Carla Sanchez's top broke while she and her New York University dance team were performing in a national competition. She continued to dance, topless, believing her team would be penalized if she broke ranks to cover up. (The judges later said they would not have deducted points.) The NYU team won its division. The incident was referenced in a 2002 USA Today article on cheerleading as a sport and industry.

Cosplayers sometimes have these. Most commonly these happen when their costumes fall apart, although there have been some more classic examples.

Along those lines, fursuiters have heads that prevent them from seeing anything that happens to their suit. For example, if a seam is poorly sewn and rips exposing clothing/body underneath, they may be walking around with no idea about it until someone else tells them. This happens very rarely, but if it does, it's wise to tell them as soon as possible.

It happened to author J. K. Rowling during a public appearance. A gentleman friend nobly covered up with an improvised hand-bra.

During the very eventful final of Britain's Got Talent, judge Amanda Holden offered her left breast to the world when her dress failed. No eggs were involved in this live blooper. Screen-grabs went almost as viral as the egg-throwing.

A little-known Korean actress named Yeo Min-Jeong (여민정) briefly made headlines following the 2013 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival after her dress slipped down and exposed her chest twice as she walked the red carpet. A brief flurry of speculation ensued regarding whether the entire incident was intentional on her part since footage clearly shows that she touched the strap in question a moment before each slip, and she was wearing flesh-colored tape over her breasts at the time.

Shortly after winning Miss Universe, Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins appeared at a fashion show where her high heel caught on the hem of her dress and ripped it clean off her. She laughed it off, apologized, and joked that she wished she'd worn better underwear.

A UK TV kids program from 2004 Ministry of Mayhem, infamously had an incident where Holly Willoughbys' top had came down and exposed one of her breasts, not long after she was let go from the show, due to the incident happening in a studio full of kids.

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Dress Falls Apart

Ana Sofia's new dress falls apart while she tries to have a conversation with her boss.